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for operose
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Operose \Op"er*ose`\ a. [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor,
opus, operis, work, labor.]
Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious;
wearisome. "Operose proceeding." --Burke. "A very operose
calculation." --De Quincey. -- Op"er*ose`ly, adv. --
Op"er*ose`ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
operose
adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion;
especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up
the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor";
"heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours
on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous,
backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy,
laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "operose":
Herculean, abstruse, arduous, assiduous, backbreaking, brutal,
burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding,
difficile, difficult, diligent, effortful, elaborate, exacting,
forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard, hard-earned,
hard-fought, heavy, hefty, industrious, intricate, jawbreaking,
killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, no picnic,
not easy, onerous, oppressive, painful, painstaking, punishing,
rigorous, rough, rugged, sedulous, set with thorns, severe, spiny,
steep, strained, strenuous, thorny, thorough, thoroughgoing,
ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, wearisome,
wicked
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